前後 – vocab dash

前ぜん後ご

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Meanings

Noun

1. front and rear; front and back; before and behind; back and forth

2. before and after

Suffix

Noun

Adverb

3. around; about; approximately (after a quantity, age, time, etc.)

Noun

4. order; context

5. consequences

6. just when; around the time of

Noun

Suru verb

Transitive verb

Intransitive verb

7. inversion; reversion; getting out of order

Noun

Suru verb

Intransitive verb

8. co-occurring; happening at the same time (as 前後して)

Kanji used

前in front of 後after

Pitch accent

ぜんご

Used in vocabulary

前ぜん後ご左さ右ゆう

in all directions

Noun

前ぜん後ご不ふ覚かく

unconsciousness; having no recollection of one's actions

Na-adjective

前ぜん後ご関かん係けい

context (of a passage)

Noun

善ぜん後ご処しょ置ち

remedial measure; settlement (of matters); dealing with the aftermath

Noun

前ぜん後ご矛む盾じゅん

self-contradiction; self-inconsistency

Noun

前ぜん後ご工こう程てい

to and fro process; back and forth process; cooperative process; collaborative process

Noun

Examples10

彼かれは首くびを前ぜん後ごに振ふりました。

He shook his head back and forth.

日本にほんのＯＤＡは返へん済さい期き間かん３０年ねん、利り率りつ２％前ぜん後ごという条じょう件けんの緩ゆるい円えん借しゃっ款かんが大だい部ぶ分ぶんを占しめる。

Japan's ODA largely consists of concessionary yen credit repayable in 30 years, carrying an interest rate of 2% or so.

倒とう置ち法ほうは言こと葉ばの前ぜん後ごを入いれ替かえることにより文ぶん章しょうを強きょう調ちょうする効こう果かがあります。

Anastrophe, by switching around words, has the effect of emphasizing text.

腕うでを前ぜん後ごに振ふりなさい。

Swing your arm back and forth.

ランプが前ぜん後ごにゆれていた。

The lamp was swinging back and forth.

女じょ子しは10〜11歳さい前ぜん後ご、男だん子しは11〜12歳さい前ぜん後ごで思し春しゅん期きを迎むかえる。

Girls begin puberty around the ages of ten to eleven, and boys around the ages of eleven to twelve.